Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-04-14
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
THE Pennsylvania and the Reading Rail-
sway Coal and Iron Companies have come to
an understanding at last and will work to-
gether.
JOHANN MOST, the anarchist ex-convlct,
was given huge reception in New York
City on the night of the 4th. There was no
disorder. Most made two speeches.
Miss CAROLINE LoRILLARD WOLFE, worth
sc, 00O, 600, died in New York on the 4th,
aged sixty.
AN unknown two-masted schooner was
lost OF Nantucket, Mass, recently. The
crew were probably drowned.
AN extensive strike of stonemasons and
their laborers and mortar mixers took
place at Boston on the 5th. The object of
the strike was to obtain nine hours per day
with wages for ten hours.
THE Merchants Exchange Of San Fran
cisco recently received a dispatch stating
that the bark Eldorado, Captain Humphrey,
from Seattle, with cargo of coal, had
foundered off Cape Flattery, and all but
two of the crew of twelve were lost. The
vessel was 1,076 tons burden. She was
valued at $4,000 and was partly insured.
1t was also reported that the ship st.
Stephen, from Seattle, coal laden, had been
lost. She was owned in New York.
THE will of Mary II. Pelton, the sister of
the late Samuel j. Tilden, was admitted to
queathed all her property to her grand
daughter, Laura A. Pelton, wife of w. A
Hazard.
THE Philadelphia police have been in
structed positively to see that the Sunday
and other moral reform laws are strictly
enforced.
THE Chesapeake nail works, Harrisburg,
Pa, employing about 200 men, and the
Lochiel & Paxton furnace ceased opera
tions recently until railroad and trans
portation companies reached some conclu-
sion regarding freight rates. Mill owners
said they could not continue business I'M
der the Interstate act as interpreted. Sew
eral hundred men were thrown out of en-
ployment
FIRE in a large building in Congress
square, Boston, recently, caused 500, 600
damage to the State printers and alike sum
to other firms.
A BILL has been passed by the Pennsylva-
mia Senate providing that the punishment
for murder in the first degree may be death
by the use of electricity.
AS NEAR as could be ascertained on the
5th t1e Rhode Island House stands 81 Re-
publicans and 20 Democrats, and the Senate
IS Republicans and 10 Democrats, with four
cities or towns to be heard from.
A DISTINCT earthquake tremor terrified
the inhabitants of Contocook, N. H, on the
9th. The vibrations came from the east and
loud detonations were heard like claps of
thunder.
The lives Of about 200 persons were jeop-
ardized by a fire which broke out at night
in the tenement house, IL Essex street, New
York, recently. They were rescued by
firemen, about twenty being more or less
injured
THE schedules in the assignment of L.
Levinson & Co., New York cloth ers, show
liabilities, $685. 40; nominal assets, $3.50, $50;
actual assets, S113,439.
THE places of the worzmen at Jones &
LaugAlin's iron mill at Pittsburgh, Pa,
who struck few days ago, have been filed
by new men. The locked out workmen
made applications to be organized into an
assembly of the Knights of Labor but were
refused on account of being on a strike.
BRICKLAYERs' Unions 1, 3, 9, IA and go the
Lathers' Union, the Carpenters and Joiners'
Association and the Stonemasons' Union,
all of Brooklyn, went on a strike on the 9TH.
A FOREST fire was reported raging in the
timber land west of Port jefferson, L. 1.
Much damage was done.
j. II. HART, William Kissane's lawyer,
intimates that after he gets shings settled
up in New York he is going back to Cali
fornia to make things lively for his clients
enemies.